Stretching your ability to focus is good for the brain. Paying close attention like that encourages the brain to pump more acetylcholine (a brain chemical important for learning, attention, and memory ...

Imagine you’re gearing up for another high-stakes day—important meetings, big decisions, and lots of problem-solving. Your focus needs to be sharp and your mind clear; you want to be at the top of ...

Imagine a game show where the host asks the contestant to randomly pick one option out of three: A, B or C. After the contestant chooses, say, option B, the host reveals one of the remaining choices ...

Writing recently in the journal Brain Connectivity, researchers say they’ve found support for the idea that you can. The research was led by the Addiction Recovery Research Center at the Fralin ...

When it comes to brain health, some things are out of your control. Age is the biggest risk factor for developing dementia, ...

It's harder to answer questions or solve problems when you're asked to choose between more than four solutions, research shows. We get lost comparing every option, even if we already know the best ...

What if the key to being a better manager isn’t found in a new productivity hack, a different feedback framework, or a time management app—but in understanding the three-pound organ inside your head ...

Your heart keeps you ticking, but your topmost organ, the brain—and how you feed it—is a major driver of how you feel and function on a day-to-day basis. “Nutrition profoundly impacts cognitive ...

While that message has been spread on social media, researchers are just beginning to understand how the devices affect the ...

Speaking is one of the most complicated things a human can do. Before you even say a word, your brain has to translate what you want to say into a perfectly sequenced set of instructions to the dozens ...

Your chronological age may say 65, but your brain could be acting a decade younger—or older—depending on your life ...

Reading books and listening to audiobooks tap into different elements of cognition, each with their own benefits. So which ...